CYP1A1genetic polymorphisms, tobacco smoking and lung cancer risk in a French Caucasian population
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Biomarkers
- Vol. 2 (2), 131-134
- https://doi.org/10.1080/135475097231869
Abstract
The CYP1A1 gene encoding for an enzyme involved in the metabolic activation of important tobacco carcinogens could be implicated in smoking-induced lung cancer. Given the strong association between tobacco smoking and lung cancer, the effect of tobacco smoke exposure has to be taken into account when studying the potential association between lung cancer and CYP1A1 genotypes. The effect of two CYP1A1 genetic polymorphisms (Mspl and IIe-Val) on lung cancer risk were evaluated using peripheral blood DNA from 150 lung cancer patients and 171 controls. The Mspl sitepresent allele was found among 19.3% of both cases and controls and the variant allele Val among 6.7% of cases and 8.8% of controls. Lung cancer risks associated with the Mspl site-present allele (OR= 0.9; 95%Cl: 0.5-1.8) or with the Val allele (OR= 0.8; 95%Cl: 0.3-1.9) were not increased after adjustment for tobacco and asbestos exposures. These results persisted when analyses were stratified on smoking status, daily consumption of tobacco or duration of smoking. Similar findings were obtained when squamous cell or small cell carcinomas were studied separately. This study thus suggests a minor role for the known CYP1A1 gene polymorphisms in predisposition to lung cancer among Caucasian populations.Keywords
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